Half-Life's Steamy Future [Sep 07, 2003, 1:14 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post on Planet Half-Life
(thanks Frans) reproduces some quotes from Valve's Erik Johnson posted to a Steam
forum thread discussing the role of Steam in the future of Half-Life. Here
are the excerpts:
There will no longer be a WonID system, it will be replaced by the SteamID system.
When we convert the userbase to Steam, a single WonID will be valid for all of the products.
If you're purchased a product from us at retail, you're going to have access to all of our products via Steam.
No, you do not have to pay for Steam.
That is correct, you'll have to have Steam installed to play the most current version of Half-Life.
You don't have to run steam to play a valve game.
It doesn't have to authenticate to play single player.
You do have to run steam to play online, it does callup to the master server and verify.
Just like it does right now today.
It does not have to callup to the master server to play single player.
Let's try it again.
It does not have to connect to the master server in order for single player to launch.
One more time?
An internet connection is not required to play single player.
As to the "smart bandwidth", I just did a test. Steam running, downloading an update to counterstrike. Set off some pings using All-Seeing Eye. Got back my usual number of sub-100 pings. Most "dumb" downloaders will throw my pings to hell and back.
It doesn't have to authenticate to play single player.
You do have to run steam to play online, it does callup to the master server and verify.
Just like it does right now today.
It does not have to callup to the master server to play single player.
Let's try it again.
It does not have to connect to the master server in order for single player to launch.
One more time?
An internet connection is not required to play single player.
As to the "smart bandwidth", I just did a test. Steam running, downloading an update to counterstrike. Set off some pings using All-Seeing Eye. Got back my usual number of sub-100 pings. Most "dumb" downloaders will throw my pings to hell and back.
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